Date/Time Missing In the Menu Bar in Ubuntu 13.10? Here’s the Fix!

Damien

5 years ago

If you have upgraded your Ubuntu machine to Ubuntu Saucy 13.10, one of the things that you might find missing is the date/time indicator in the menu bar. And if you visit the “System Settings -> Time and Date -> Clock” section, you might find that the option to add it to the menu bar is greyed out and disabled.

If you are having this problem, here’s the fix.

1. Reinstall indicator-datetime. It should be installed by default, but just in case you have removed it unknowingly, it is best to run the install command again.

sudoapt-get install indicator-datetime

2. Next, we are going to reconfigure the date time:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata

3. Lastly, restart unity.

sudokillall unity-panel-service

That’s it. The date and time indicator will appear in the menu bar now.